Definition of Calypters

1. calypter [n] - See also: calypter

Lexicographical Neighbors of Calypters

calycules
calyculi
calyculin A
calyculus
calymmatobacterium
calyon
calyons
calypses
calypsoes
calypsolike
calypsonian
calypsonians
calypsos
calypter
calypters (current term)
calyptra
calyptrae
calyptras
calyptrate
calyptriform
calyptrolith
calyx
calyx-tube
calyx tube
calyxed
calyxes
calzirtite
calzone
calzones

Literary usage of Calypters

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Journal of the New York Entomological Society by New York Entomological Society (1913)
"Haltères dark yellow, calypters yellowish with brownish-yellow margin. ... not so cylindrical, but very shining; femora hardly thickened ; calypters paler. ..."

2. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences by California Academy of Sciences (1920)
"... a little shorter than the remaining four joints taken together, fourth joint very short. calypters, their cilia, and the halteres yellow. ..."

3. Proceedings by Entomological Society of Washington (1914)
"calypters yellowish. Wings hyaline. A line of three bristles at base of third vein. First posterior cell barely closed in margin of wing. ..."

4. I. A Further Study of Variation in the Gopher-snakes of Western North by John Van Denburgh (1920)
"calypters and haltères brownish yellow ; the latter with yellow knobs and the former with black cilia. Wings tinged with brownish gray; third and fourth ..."

5. A New Genus and Species of Grasshopper from California by Morgan Hebard (1920)
"... a little shorter than the remaining four joints taken together, fourth joint very short. calypters, their cilia, and the halteres yellow. ..."

6. Notes on a Fauna of the Vigo Group and Its Bearing on the Evolution of by Roy Ernest Dickerson (1921)
"calypters black with yellowish cilia. Wings brown in front of fourth vein and along the fifth and cross veins, a small spot at base, a slender streak in the ..."

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